Happy New Year!!!!!!

Hope you, we, all have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2013 … with hockey.

I think the last part is a given, but the first parts are much more important.

Also want to take this opportunity to thank all of youse for being here all the time, for making this place what it is (which is, um, indescribable).

And once we get hockey back — opening night Jan. 19 or 20 — here’s hoping that a lot of our regulars who have understandably been away during this idiotic lockout will come back in droves. I will count on you all to spread the gospel and make the traffic go crazy again so that they will send me to a lot of games and let me spend a lot of time doing this instead of my “other” job.

Enough of that. Enjoy, have fun, be safe.

Me? I’m going to kick off the new year with Ralph and Alice and Ed and Trixie. Happy yuletide!

Screw the NHL. Though, for what it’s worth, I’m spending this year in India. I had been really worried about how to get my Rangers fix while overseas, turns out the problem has been nicely solved by the league — I’m substituting the Indian cricket team for the Rangers for this year! Let’s Go India!

Happy new year all. Hopefully now that the wreck is near dropping off the cliff into sports oblivion the owners will realise that with a 50/50 split and a bit of self control we should have been watching the winter classic today.

We have a great place to talk the only sport right here and it amazes me the traffic it has had during the down lockout times. Carpy, remember those of us that have been here through thick and thin when you and your blog site move on, as this season takes off, to ‘hockey blog all star fame’!!!!!!!!

We MUST win this opening game, whenever it comes, in order to let the rest of the league know we’re serious. Matter of fact, we need to blow someone out! If we don’t it will be a long, uphill climb. Hit hard before the fatigue factor sets in.

Things just keep getting better. Because I was so concerned with his love life and their relationship………Ovechkin got engaged to Kirilenko. She will be one happy wife with such a loyal and dedicated husband. Love is in the air….

& Rupp doing the Jagr salute and Boyle telling Giroux and Hartnell to shut up. Good times. … oh, and Torts questioning the integrity of the game and whether they called the penalty shot for NBC and getting rung up by the Lockout Commissioner.

The Rangers will go from cap flexibility under the old CBA to being cap strangled with the new CBA. I’d rather see the NHLPA take a stand and force a canceled season than see our Rangers once again stuck behind the 8 ball.

There just has to be a better way to roll a cap back. Why not incremental adjustments? Why not just calm down and think it through without destroying what took teams years to build and get to. The genius of the Nash trade was that it left us enough room to re-sign a lot of our younger players in the coming seasons. That’s all been thrown down the tubes.

What about our junior teams chances tomorrow against the Canadians? Is anyone getting up to watch that at 4am? Perhaps Bettiman and fear should watch it as well? Remind them of the reason the game is played?

Cccp
Hey bro, busy as hell (sorry carp). Since about September I’ve been doing a couple of project with some other former military operators and its been keeping me busy, well that and work and the wicksters.

Fwiw, I really miss hockey and this place and all you guys (and girls).

Carp – once again, I beg you to close down Chad’s LoHud Yankees blog. Those whack jobs are over there arguing about their arguments. E.They each actually think their opinions matter, as if their blog is the real world. We puck heads know this is the only real world blog. We should be filmed for MTV in front of a live studio audience